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Personal Growth – Part 1

let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance
Proverbs 1:5

Here are some things you need to know about growth: 1) Growth is not automatic. You are only young once, but you can be immature indefinitely. Each year the lobster is forced to shed its shell; it is a pity we aren't! Come on, if you do not make personal growth your responsibility it will never happen. The road to anything worthwhile is always uphill, so the sooner you start climbing the closer to reaching your God-ordained potential you will be. 2) Growth today brings success tomorrow. What you sow today determines what you reap tomorrow. Oliver Wendell Holmes said, 'Once stretched by a new idea, a man's mind never regains its original dimensions' So what are you doing today to become more successful tomorrow? 3) Growth is your responsibility. When you were a child your parents were responsible for your growth, now you are. Robert Browning wrote, 'Why stay we on earth except to grow'. Good question! Yet few of us dedicate ourselves to the process. Why? Because growth requires change and most of us are uncomfortable with change. Gail Sheehy writes, 'If we do not change we will not grow, and if we do not grow we are not really living. Growth demands the temporary surrender of security. It means a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. Taking a new step is what we fear most, yet our real fear should be the opposite' Can you think of anything worse than living a life devoid of growth and improvement?

Prayer
Heavenly Father, Help me to invest in growing and learning new things today that can help me tomorrow as I seek to be all that you have called me to be. In Jesus' Name, Amen